David-Joseph Brown
Chief Executive Officer

David J Brown brings a strong media and technology background to the Ve Interactive table, as well as global operational experience. In 1999 he built an interactive media company called Serious with operations across Europe, Asia and the USA. From 2000, Brown resided in New York where he established the global HQ for Serious and from which he directed American, European and Asian sales efforts. Clients included Sony Pictures, McKesson, New Line Cinema, Warner Brothers, Disney, Sony Music, Warner Music, BBC, EMI, DKNY, Victoria's Secret, Lance Armstrong's LiveStrong Foundation & UNICEF.

Serious went on to win a Promo Magazine Award, Communicator Awards, Davey Awards, a Fresh Digital Award and incurred three year-on-year consecutive Sport Industry Award nominations. The Financial Times wrote a feature on Serious in May 2007.

In late 2007 David relocated back to the UK where he founded the boutique management consultancy, Knowledge MGI Ltd. Knowledge specialises in the sport and media sectors and its work extends from complex M&As, to company restructuring, building business & financial plans, raising investment and identifying new business opportunities. Knowledge consults to various clients who include Krores, the global supplier of bespoke technology-based financial services and the media group; Milestone Group plc. In his career Brown has appeared as a spokesperson on regional, national and international TV and radio, as well as being invited to sit on panels at industry events, including Soccerex South Africa, The Voucher Association Conference, UK and Ad:Tech, Sydney.

In his capacity as CEO of Ve Interactive, David is responsible for building an effective management team, creating the strategy for the business and guiding the products to market to ultimately create a return for private shareholders. Brown is a keen musician in his spare time, playing piano and writing music. He was once a finalist in the prestigious Vienna International Composition Competition and along with Kathy Heslop wrote and recorded the trailer music for the movie Notting Hill.

Steve Clucas
Chairman

Steve has been working in the B2B sector for the last 25 years, following a successful 10 year career as a senior Manager/Director within Canon (UK) Ltd. Steve left the safety of the large corporate environment to build a number of his own successful businesses. These companies were within the utility and telecommunications market place.

The two companies had a combined customer base of 140,000 businesses with a total turnover in excess of 250 million pounds.Both companies were sold to large blue chip companies for a combined consideration of 76 million pounds.

After selling his last Telecom business Steve set up Camber Associates in 2005, a B2B Sales Acquisition and Marketing company. It was here that Steve's real passion for seeing a business problem and finding a cost effective solution for his customers took a hold.

Kathy Heslop
Director of WorldWide

Communications

Kathy has invested more than 10 years achieving strategic business goals through high impact marketing and PR initiatives and Kathy has an understanding of how effective communications can impact an organisation.

Prior to Ve Interactive, Kathy was a co founder of Knowledge MGI in 2008 and previously of Serious where she worked for over eight years, based out of New York. Serious went on to employ over seventy staff and had three offices worldwide.

Kathy made the jump to PR from licensing and merchandising and has a track record of successfully developing markets via PR and Communications within the Sports, Entertainment & Media sectors, particularly in the promotional, stored value, direct mail and gift card sectors. Having generated media coverage for Serious, (including profile features in The Financial Times, Brand Week and on NY1), Kathy was also responsible for the company's many industry awards and nominations, including a Promo Magazine Award, Communicator Awards, Davey Awards, a Fresh Digital Award and incurred three year-on-year consecutive Sport Industry Award nominations. She was also responsible for developing the company's Corporate Social Responsibility programme, partnering Serious with UNICEF, for which she went on to raise over £50,000 for the organisation's global campaign on children and AIDS.

Kathy was once a professional violinist, working with UK orchestras and opera companies. She was also the first female electric violinist to perform at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club and was invited to perform for the 80th birthday celebrations for the internationally renowned concert violinist Lord Yehudi Menuhin. Along with David Brown, she co wrote the trailer music for the movie Notting Hill.

Kathy is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

Greg Shlopak
Chief Executive Officer

Gregory P. Shlopak started his career as a professor of sciences at Harcum College in Bryn Mawr, PA. Greg later founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Cyrk Inc., a promotional marketing and design company. Cyrk grew to be the largest global promotional marketing company during Greg's twenty-three year tenure, achieving yearly revenues of $980 million worldwide. Privately owned until July 1993, Cyrk went public and traded on NASDAQ.

Cyrk designed, implemented, produced and fulfilled global brand loyalty marketing promotions for Fortune 500 companies. This included the Marlboro Adventure Team Program, Pepsi Stuff Campaign, McDonald's Happy Meals worldwide and the Beanie Babies Official Club.

Cyrk operated offices and major production facilities in the U.S., Europe and Asia to service their clients representing the top brands in their respective industries. In addition to Cyrk's creative marketing capabilities, Cyrk was also a leading producer of textile products and toys in Asia. Cyrk led to the genesis of Exchange Applications Inc., whose principal activity is the provision of enterprise Customer Relationship Management (eCRM) solutions that optimize interactive relationships between customers and companies.

Greg left Cyrk in 1999 to join his board member, partner and good friend, Louis Marx, in his venture capital business - Brae Capital in New York City. The emphasis of his investments was in marketing and marketing technologies. Two of Greg's contributions to the organization were FairMarket, Inc. and Marketswitch Corporation. FairMarket, Inc. became publicly traded one year after the initial investment at a rate of return of seventy-five times. Marketswitch Corporation is the leading marketing and risk optimization software company serving many of the world's largest business-to-consumer enterprises. Greg served as a board member of Marketswitch USA and Marketswitch Japan, as well as a consultant and advisor to the CEO.

Greg's investments and operational participation this past decade follow his interests in marketing, sports, technologies and healthcare.They include Ace Surfaces, which holds the North American license for Rebound Ace tennis and playground surfaces. Ace Surfaces is also the official Nike Grind tennis and basketball surface. Rockport Venture Partners, an NASD broker-dealer, which raises venture capital in the U.S., Europe and Asia for bio-tech, life sciences and medical device companies in the United States.

Greg founded and partnered with the Havens Company in 2003 to form Havensure LLC, an insurance business focusing on Group Universal Life and Disability Insurance for major corporations.

For the last two and a half years, Greg has served as Executive Chairman and acting CEO of OfficeWorks Inc., in California. Greg also served as Chairman of Serious USA, where he met David Brown, founder and CEO of Ve Interactive.

Greg earned a B.A. from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, PA and an M.A. from the University of Delaware.

Stephen Polinsky
Chief Operating Officer

Stephen is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive having founded and built three successful software and services companies to date. In 2009, Stephen started and served as CEO and President of KeChange - where he was responsible for the company's funding, general strategy and business operations. Through consulting and retainer-based managed services, KeChange helped companies to expand their digital presence and authority, increase sales, customer experience and retention. In 2011, KeChange was merged into Ve Interactive - North America.

In 2007, Stephen started CondoAssociation.com, now the leading online provider of financial and management services to the community association industry. In 2010, CondoAssociation.com received over $120M in HOA loan applications for its banking partners.

In 1999, Stephen co-founded GenuOne Inc., an emerging growth SaaS application and services company focused on assisting leading brands with their supply chain security challenges. The company raised over $20M in VC financing and a $15M credit line with RBS. The company had over 75 employees and an account base of over 50 global companies. GenuOne was purchased by OpSec Security (OSG.L) in 2006.

Prior to this, Stephen held various sales and marketing positions with Nortel and Philips Electronics.

Stephen holds a B.A. in Political Economics from the University of Hartford. He currently sits on the Board of Future Leader for Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital (BIDMC).

Charles Clarke
Director of Strategic Alliances

Charles Clarke obtained a law degree at Liverpool University and joined following a successful tenure as Commercial Director of Soccerex. At Soccerex, Clarke was responsible for developing the overall sales strategies aimed at leveraging the Soccerex b2b brand worldwide. During his tenure he oversaw the commercial strategy formulation and development of new revenue streams as they relate to sponsorship, strategic partnerships, online presence, and international ventures allowing the company to grow into one of the most formidable Sports Conferences in the world today, experience which set him in good stead for his role as Ve Interactive’s Director of Strategic Alliances.

Johan Hagenfeldt
Chief Executive Officer

With a background as an officer in the Swedish military, law degree and having worked in entrepreneurial corporations, Johan has developed a thorough proficiency in leadership, business development, innovation, marketing and sales. In particular, Johan has gained special skills in both online and offline sales/marketing and negotiations with cooperation’s and networks around the globe. Throughout Johan’s career he has demonstrated very strong self-starting skills, taking personal responsibility for driving projects and employees forward in a variety of challenging start-up environments.

Thus in 2009 Johan became an entrepreneur and left his day job as Global Director of Affiliate Marketing and started Fremonte AB together with Björn Antonson, they also partner together in Ve Interactive Nordic AB.

Björn Antonson
Chief Financial Officer

Before becoming an entrepreneur, Björn held various positions within the BMW organization for several years at their headquarters in Munich, Germany. In his roles working with corporate strategy and business development he refined his analytical, strategic and leadership skills in particular.

Björn holds double Master degrees from Lund University, Sweden where he on a parallel basis earned his M.Sc. in Business and Economics as well as a Master of Laws (LL.M). He completed his graduate part of the education abroad on Univeristy of St. Gallen in Switzerland and on University of California Berkeley, in the US.

In 2009 Björn founded Fremonte AB together with Johan Hagenfeldt, an online marketing consultancy firm, focusing on development of market entry strategies and strategic partnerships on a global basis, catering to a broad base of clients with emphasize on companies active within social media and online entertainment.